Even more favourite Strictly quotes: The final approaches...

We had such a laugh reviewing our favourite Strictly quotes just ahead of Blackpool that we decided to do it again for the second part of the series. It’s the final this weekend, which will no doubt feature some more material – but meanwhile let’s indulge.

So week nine was Blackpool. Jamelia delivered her "best ballroom" with her quickstep – but Craig firmly objected to her lack of stillness in her top line etc etc etc etc etc. It was all a bit much for Jamelia and Claudia consoled her with:

1. "Are you going to cry? You can cry. We're in Blackpool. It's very windy."

Anita and Gleb’s paso doble featuring three extra dancers was their highest scoring dance in the series and prompted lots of quotable quotes. Starting with Tess:

2. "Four male dancers Anita! Greedy."

Then Craig:

3. "Total theatre. Right up my straza."

And then Bruno:

4. "This was not a paso doble for vegetarians. I've never seen so much prime beef in such splendid display."

Week 10 was the quarter finals. Always lyrical, Len said to Kellie on her salsa:

5. "Your bum was bionic, flying about…"

Anita and Gleb’s rumba prompted ever more poetry from the head judge:

6. "What's all that through the legs business?"

Despite Craig saying that he loved his performance skills, Peter Andre’s American Smooth nearly finished him off. And even when it was done he could barely recover:

7. "I’m not going to lie, this is the most nervous I’ve ever been, ever. I’ve been shaking all day. I’m still nervous."

Week 11: Musicals week and the quarter finals. Gleb freed Anita from prison to lead her in an Argentine Tango to Cell Block Tango, a number from Chicago. But for Craig…

8. "This dance has exposed all your weak points… you have a tendency for pigeon toes."

So it was good that Helen changed the tone with her highest scoring dance of the series: her Viennese waltz. 

Tess thought Darcey looked enraptured and she was right:

9. "It was like being in your dream. You are such a treasure to watch… the details, the feeling, the gliding, how you used the floor… thank you."

Helen told Claudia she was about to faint and that was before she got three 10s from the judges – having never had one before. Bruno gave one of the 10s:

10. "I am charmed to the core. It looked weightless, like you were dancing on a cloud."

And the finesse continued with Georgia’s foxtrot which Darcey marvelled at. 

Georgia said she’d be wearing that Disney princess dress to bed, by the way.

11. "There were beautiful moments where you hovered in every transition. Beautiful."

The drinks are on the ’ouse!! Kellie's rowdy turn to Oom Pah Pah! from Oliver Twist was a Viennese waltz like we, and Craig, had never seen:

12. "Not elegant. It had no class darling, was common as. And you know what? I loved it!"

You just never know which way that man’s going to go. Darcey, in a much more Darcey way, also expressed her love for Jay and Aliona’s rumba to Falling Slowly from Once.

13. "You've both brought tears to my eyes. It was fabulous."

Their waltz the following week had a different effect on Craig, however:

11. "Storywise, it looked like Aliona had just dumped you."

If you hadn’t gathered from the above clip, rumbas are meant to be sexy and Kellie and Kevin didn’t do much for Bruno with theirs.

12. "It was like a brother and sister dance... I'd like it a bit hotter, that's all."

Len (the self-said ‘cup of tea in world of skinny lattes’) brought a gentlemanly appreciation of Katie's classic waltz to Puccini.

13. "In a world of razzamatazz, it's nice to have something quiet and understated."

It was sore throat week for poor Georgia and still her waltz got a more contemporary response from Bruno:

14. "Right on the money, honey!"

Anita's acrobatic salsa had Tess and Craig both saluting her bravery and Darcey wholeheartedly agreed:

15. "You are so daring. Most ladies would have cut half of that out. I mean, I am so impressed."

Kellie's American Smooth really was breathtaking – please just go 50 seconds in and take in those four fan lifts. Sigh. What else is there to say, Darcey?

16. It had glamour, flair, all the Hollywood quality we wanted. Oh my… that was heaven

From that heady atmosphere plonk back down to earth with Len on Anita’s dance to New York, New York.

17. "The American Smooth you did was lovely. However. I was looking for the foxtrot."

Fiona Wickham is the editor of the BBC TV blog.

The Strictly Come Dancing final is on Saturday, 19 December at 6.35pm on BBC One. It will be available in BBC iPlayer for 30 days after broadcast on TV.